Life drawing classes

At last, I found a life class fairly close to where I live. I've been searching for some time now and finally I spoke to someone yesterday (Tuesday) on the phone when I got home from work, and hes holding a series of 12 sessions, which started two weeks ago. Taking place about 20 miles away, its on a Tuesday night, so after a 10 minute conversation and a very quick bite to eat, I dashed off to try my hand at life drawing.

Feeling a bit harried by the time I arrived, my initial three, 15 minute sketches, arent worth showing you, in fact they are a bit embarrassing to say the least! But the main sketch of the evening, which took me about an hour, is something I'm extremely proud of! I do tend to see some of my efforts through rose tinted glasses, especially just after I've done them, which means I dont always see glaring errors, but in this case I dont think there are too many (at least I hope not!) Your comments would be very welcome!

So here it is....

You may already know that I was made redundant 10 days before Christmas. It wasnt altogether unexpected, however still not great. But of course there are some advantages.......time to lie in bed in the mornings, potter about and do exactly what I want to do whenever I want to do it! So, this is the main reason that there have been quite a few posts over the last couple of months, mainly pics of the latest results from yet another OCA project.

I wanted to try a different style and achieve a loser, more imaginative and 'scruffy' end result and although I am pleased with this picture, I think I could still become much more suggestive and loser in the style. More work needed I think!
This picture is the result of the last project I have to do in pastels and I'm quite sad to be moving away from this medium! Even though they're messy and I struggled a bit with them at the beginning, I've got to know them now and I really like them now! Also I will never forget how cold it was outside whilst I was doing this picture...New Years Day, nought degrees or less... ugh....frost bite was also achieved that day!

And this last picture...well just a bit of fun! All dark and gloomy I know, but I wanted to try and portray a really stormy day....and I think I got it! This is a working sketch of something I would like to try in the future (its only framed as I've run out of fixitive and being in a frame is the safest place for it for now!)